1. This is a piece of beetle pine I roughed a couple years ago. At the time, there was a minor check, which I filled with thin CA in the hope of stopping it from opening. That worked, but it left a yellow stain (see first image). I turned as much of it away as possible, but a small part remains and it is distracting. I applied some BLO, the yellowest finish I have in the shop. Would a yellow dye work to disguise the CA stain? Ritz? Trans-tint? Other ideas?
2. When I roughed this, it looked like half a basketball. I really loved the half sphere shape, which followed the growth rings. Turning away the stained crack changed the profile and left a bit of a flat spot. I'm really bad at seeing profiles in the shop, but there is room to turn the bottom under and I think I want to do that. I rotated one image to make it easier to see. Thoughts?
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